Shopping With Shane Powers: Urban Gardening Accessories
Andrea Mohin/The New York Times
Shane Powers with handmade Ben Wolff pots at GRDN in Brooklyn.
THE official begin of spring has some gardeners dreaming up grand plans for their outdoor spaces, while others — especially those who live in New York City — are limited to indoor or container gardening. Shane Powers belongs to the latter category.
A stylist and designer who is also the deputy craft editor at Martha Stewart Living and a regular contributor to Bloom magazine, Mr. Powers recently created a line of containers for West Elm, which are intended for hardy plants that need only water and air to grow. Or, as the description in the West Elm catalog reads, “specimens that even the most luckless indoor gardener can’t kill.”
Recently, he went shopping for other items an indoor gardener might find useful in creating and maintaining a container garden, and a black-thumbed reporter tagged along.
At GRDN in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, he picked out handmade clay pots by Ben Wolff. “They’re a beautiful alternative to terra cotta,” he noted, “with a quiet shape and finish that walks the line between modern and traditional, masculine and feminine.”
He also liked the Eco Pots at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, for a “nice bit of color, and an organic depth you don’t usually find in high-gloss color finishes.”
Online, on the Anchor Hocking Web site, he made what seemed like an odd choice: a two-gallon Heritage Hill jar.
“It’s a super-American, classic thing that people might already have in their kitchens,” he said, explaining that he would use it for a terrarium. “It’s a basic, beautiful shape,” and only $16.99.
And on the Terrain Web site, he chose a “practical and handsome” plant mister, “to keep your plants feeling fresh — especially plants that require humidity, like orchids or ferns.”
Finally, he settled on a brass plant hook, from the aptly named Hook Lady’s site. The sinuously curved hook would be “a subtle and beautiful way to hang plants,” he said.
“It’s important to think about the entire arrangement — from the hook, to the pot, to the plant,” he added, so that all the elements “become beautiful objects in themselves.”
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